Please find below the programme for July's WIGS conference. We are
expecting speakers/poster presenters from the U.S, Canada, Australia,
Rumania, Italy, Germany, the U.K. and the Republic of Ireland (and
we're very excited about it!).
For interest and variety, presentations are divided into papers,
panels, posters, and a 'creative session'.
A hard copy of the programme and details of how to register should be
flying through your letterboxes any day now. The conference fee is
£75 (waged), £45 (unwaged), and includes most meals. Accommodation is
being handled separately -- please see the WIGS website for details.
To register for the conference, please contact Joanne Naysmith:
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Please note: WIGS members requiring financial assistance for
childcare or postgraduate travel should apply to Beth by 1 June 2000
at the latest.
We VERY much hope to see you there!
All good wishes,
Sarah
(for Sarah, Alison, Christl, Laura)
Myths and Mythmaking
WIGS 2000
hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow
Pollock Halls, Edinburgh, 28-31 July 2000
Programme
Friday 28 July
16.00 Arrive Edinburgh Pollock Halls and tea
17.00 Welcome (Frances Dow, Dean and Provost, University of
Edinburgh; Helen Chambers, St Andrews)
17.30 Karen Leeder (Oxford), Angels
18.30 Dinner
20.30 Bachmann panel:
Monika Albrecht (Münster), Mythos Ingeborg Bachmann: Eine kritische
Bilanz
Sara Lennox (Massachussets), The Woman Who Rode Away: Mexican
mythology and Ingeborg Bachmann
Saturday 29 July
10.00 Christa Wolf panel:
Brigid Haines (Swansea), Paradigm, Perfection, Possibility: The
deconstruction of myth in Christa Wolf’s Kassandra project
Helen Bridge (Oxford), Christa Wolf’s Kassandra and Medea: continuity
and change
Ancient myth:
Heike Bartel (Nottingham Trent), ‘Die unerhörte Tat: Zur Rezeption
des Medea-Mythos’
Georgina Paul (Warwick), Multiple Refractions, or Winning Movement
out of Myth: Barbara Köhler’s poem-cycle ‘Elektra. Spiegelungen’
PARALLEL
Fairy-tale and legend:
Jeannine Blackwell (Kentucky), Founding Mothers v. Supergirls? Women
narrating legendary queens from c. 1800 to 1900
Loreley French (Pacific), Merlin revisited: Dorothea Schlegel’s
‘Geschichte des Zauberers Merlin’
Bluebeard:
Mererid Puw Davies (UCL), ‘Ein furchtbares Spektakelstück’: the tale
of Bluebeard on the German stage
Meg Mumford (Glasgow), Pina Bausch and Bluebeard
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Dis/closures:
Adriana Cavarero, Feminist approaches to mythmaking
Karen Seago, The mythic intertext in Grimms’ KHM 50: ‘Dornröschen’
Renate Rechtien (Bath), Christa Wolf’s Medea: Stimmen
PARALLEL
Fausts:
Patricia Herminghouse (Rochester), Taking Back the Myth and Magic:
‘The Heroic Testament’ of Irmtraud Morgner
Agatha Schwartz (Ottawa), Rosa Mayreder’s Anda Renata: a female
Faust?
Elisabeth Siekhaus (Mills College), Faustina, She-Devil, or Forever
Gretchen: the casting of women in popular culture’s Faust stories
16.00 Tea
16.30 POSTER SESSION: details soon
18.30 Dinner
20.00 CREATIVE SESSION
21.30 Ceilidh
Sunday 30 July
10.00 Myths of creativity:
Susanne Kord (Georgetown), Myths of Poetic Inspiration:
eighteenth-century women peasant poets and the bourgeois literary
imagination
Ann McGlashan (Baylor), ‘Art was made by men for men’: the myth of
the non-creative woman in 19th-century Germany
Max Leefe (Johns Hopkins), The construction of a myth: Sigmund
Freud’s Moses and monotheism and the structural images of support
Laura McLary (Portland), Georg’s Grete: the incest myth and creative
genius
PARALLEL
Manipulating myth:
Gisela Roethke (Dickinson), The Use of Ancient Greek and Christian
Myths in Elisabeth Langgässer’s Novels
Ann Lawson (Birmingham), The manipulation of myth: a study of Thomas
Mann’s Joseph und seine Brüder as a work of its time
Birgit Haas, Myths in Modern Theatre: George Tabori’s late plays and
the Jewish-Christian tradition
Undine Weber (Rhodes, SA), Wolfgang Koeppens System im Umgang mit
Mythen
Free afternoon (no lunch provided)
20.00 Dinner in town
Monday 31 July
9.30 Myths of Sex and Gender
Beth Linklater (Swansea), ‘Philomena’s Revenge’: challenges to rape
in recent writing in German
Mihaela Zaharia (Bucharest), Das mythische Bild des Hermaphroditen
Elke Liebs (Potsdam), Biblical women
PARALLEL
(Domi)nation:
Ingrid Sharp (Leeds), Mythmaking and Gender Relations after Two World
Wars
Clare Flanagan (Bristol), Political Myth in German Intellectual
Debate in the late 40s
Branka Schaller (London), The Adaptation of Greek Mythology in
Postwar Theatre
11.00 Coffee
11.15 Elizabeth Boa (Nottingham), Silencing the Sirens: Odysseus and
the sirens and some motifs in Wedekind and Kafka
12.15 WIGS business meeting
13.00 Lunch and departure
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Dr S J Colvin
School of European Languages and Cultures (German)
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JX
UK
Tel: ++131 6503630
Fax: ++131 6503604
email: [log in to unmask]
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